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Summary: So WASN'T what I thought, but better
Review: I completely thought this was going to be like an thriller/intrigue thing... But it wasn't, and all the better! Great performances--and I am not a Leo fan. Even more interesting that the story is true! The interaction between Hanks and Leo is magical. Leo and his father--their relationship, as well as the unspoken expectations is terrific. Watch this, you'll like it!
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Summary: Catch me if you can
Review: Based on the life of Frank Abagnale, Hollywood decided to do what it usually does - change the 'little details' of the story to make it more 'dramatic'. In this case, instead of going into Abagnale's actual reasons & motivations for what he did (which I'm sure many viewers were interested in), the movie 'explains' his action by some psychobabble about the trauma of his parents' divorce and wanting to please his father.Luckily, what remains of the story is fascinating enough, and is presented by a wonderful cast, giving their best performances. I'm sure I wouldn't be able to see Christopher Walken as 'Creepy Guy' ever again after his against type - performance in this movie...
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Summary: Surprisingly warm and involving -- even for Leo-haters!
Review: If, like me, you've gotten exhausted by the obsessive focus on Leonardo DiCaprio after "Titanic," it's easy to forget the reason the public originally knew his name: his acting ability. "Catch Me If You Can" brings that all back in a rush, and also features the welcome sight of Tom Hanks stretching himself beyond the warm, lovable characters he's most associated with, portraying a character more prickly and difficult to warm to than any since his starring role in "Saving Private Ryan." Spielberg's film moves along at a brisk pace, feeling very much of the period that it portrays, while reflecting a modern audience's sensibilities. When it needs to move quickly, it does, but he's also not afraid to let the camera linger on his two actors, allowing them to convey without words the deeper painful waters that run beneath their surfaces. Towards the end, the film threatens to wear out its welcome, but on the whole, it ends up being a rewarding experience that is genuinely good for the whole family: Younger viewers will enjoy the caper aspects of the film (although it's no "Sting" or "The Great Train Robbery," nor does it try to be), while older viewers will enjoy the subtexts of a desire to find a role in the world, and a way to make a mark. Enthusiastically recommended for all audiences.
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Summary: We could catch you!
Review: This is a movie based on a true story,in particular fragments of Frank Abignale Jr are shown played by Di Caprio.
Abignale Jr was a master of deceit and an extremely fast thinker
which is the reason why he couldn't get caught even when he got caught!
He practiced as a co-pilot,a doctor,a lawyer,he made millions by creating false checks and it took FBI a lot of time to catch him.
It's true that Abignale was a criminal but he was a very nice person too and his nice personality releases him from jail and grants him an office in FBI because it takes a criminal to catch a criminal - (sometimes)!!! The good side of this movie :
1. It was made by Steven Spielberg
2. Tom Hanks is in it
3. You can't get away with a crime no matter how professional you seem to be
4. It shows the consequences of divorce to your children The bad side : 1. It made me laugh a lot so many times but wouldn't this encourage youngsters and some not-so-bright oldies to commit crimes thinking someday movies would be made on them and that they would get offered a job at FBI which is so unlikely ?!? After all...this movie is great fun and no one should miss watching it.
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Summary: enjoyable caper film
Review: In this true story, Spielberg directs Leonardo DiCaprio as precocious con-man Frank Abagnale Jr. and Tom Hanks as the FBI agent hot on his trail. As you'd expect with such a team, the film is entertaining. Set in the late 60s, sets and design capture the times (oh! those shirts!), and the action, which jumps back and forth between young Frank, running Frank and captured Frank, is paced well. This is a solid caper film with two fine actors. At the same time, while I wasn't looking at my watch waiting for it to end, over 2 hours was a bit long for this film, and one sort of expects something "more" from this director. The film can be heard in English or French, and subtitles are available in English, Spanish or French.
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Summary: A SPLENDID MOVIE RECOUNT A REAL STORY ! *****
Review: He existed and now he work for the banks, he make some subterfuges in the banks cheques against the counterfeiters and this MOVIE is a real DREAM for everybody, his father give to him 50 cheques and say to him : "WITH ITS CHEQUES YOU ARE ALMOST THE KING OF THIS WORLD !" and after, later, he say to him : "YOU ARE THE BEST BESIDE OURSELVES and WE ARE ZERO BESIDE YOU ! MY SON !"
THE DREAM IS SUCH THAT TO RETURN ON THE GROUND IS DIFFICULT !
A MARVELLOUS DVD MOVIE WITH LEONARDO DICAPRIO TOM HANKS AND SURELY CHRISTOPHER WALKEN and evidently STEVEN SPIELBERG always the best for recount this type of movie as much as others types and HE IS REALY A GENIUS **********
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Summary: Why bother?
Review: A boring story, make that VERY boring combined with the McActor himself: Tom Hanks makes this mess unwatchable. Spielberg pumping up this broken-down film with his bag of tricks only makes things worse.
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Summary: A Breezy, Fun Time!
Review: Catch Me If You Can is easily among the best films released last year. They take an intriguing premise, a 16 year old runs away from home after his parents seperate and becomes one of the most notorious check forgers in U.S. history, and turns it into a very watchable film. Spielberg wisely keeps the pace breezy and avoids some of the darker aspects of Frank's life (although it is hinted at in several powerful scenes between DiCaprio and Walken, especially the one set in a New York bar), setting the tone for an extremely entertaining "coming-of-age" movie from the swingin' 60's. It's a great story told with vibrant actors, colors, wardrobe etc. that bring to life the era in which they took place. The only downside of the film is that the ending is very disjointed from the overall pacing of the film. Its like your cruising along the highway at a pretty good clip and someone neutral drops your car. Although the ending turns out to have great redemptive value for the character and I was glad when Abignale finally turned himself around, Spielberg could've had a more direct way of coming to that conclusion that is more in-line with the overall tone of the picture. However, the bottom line is that although its largely a "fluff" film, the acting, the script, direction and set design give it an edge that's uncommon in many big studio pictures today.
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Summary: Good entertainment, but less than factual
Review:
This movie purports to be about an actual person, Frank Abagnale, Jr., who posed more or less successfully as an airline pilot, teacher, physician, lawyer, and Secret Service agent (not in that order) before he turned 21. It begins in a television studio, with three people all claiming to be the real Frank Abagnale, leaving the audience to judge who the real one is, but never returns to that sequence, and doesn't finish it. I remember seeing just such a TV show years ago, which showed just such an imposter, but whose name I've forgotten. I remember that he posed as a surgeon in the Canadian Navy, where he actually removed an apprendix successfully, and as a professor at St. Martin's college outside Olympia, Washington. I don't remember all of the other details or parts he played, but I suspect that he was the trigger character for this movie. If so, this was highly fictionalized, although the original story was supposedly written by Abagnale himself (the real con man). Steven Spielberg produced and directed Catch Me If You Can, with Leonardo DiCaprio playing a 17-year-old as the lead whose mother and father are splitting up, and eventually divorce. The mother is cheating on his father, depicted as a romantic loser by Martin Sheen. The FBI agent that is tailing Abagnale is very well portrayed by Tom Hanks. DiCaprio, Sheen, and Hanks all turn in good peformances. The impostor that I saw on the TV show I later heard dropped out of sight, and apparently went back to his old tricks. In the movie, Abagnale was sentenced to do 12 years in federal prison for bouncing a couple of million bucks worth of bad checks, but then was hired by the FBI to help them catch other "paper hangers." The denouement stated that Abagnale eventually was married, had children, and was living "happily ever after." It sounds too much like the character I saw on TV to be coincidental, but that guy was not a 17-year-old. More like in his forties, and not all that good-looking. Maybe Abagnale was a "copy cat." As another reviewer has said, Spielberg does not sufficiently delve into to details of how Abagnale pulled off his impersonations (it all looks far too easy), nor his motivation. All in all, it was an entertaining film. Joseph (Joe) Pierre
author of Handguns and Freedom...their care and maintenance
and other books
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Summary: Caught it and Loved It
Review: Steven Spielberg has shown once again why he's the best director in hollywood. Catch Me If You Can tells the story of a conman named Frank Abagnale Jr.(DiCaprio) Frank fakes being a pilot and starts writing fraud checks and all before the age of 18. He is pursued by a federal agent Carl Hanratty(Tom Hanks). Hanks figures out that he's doing it and the chase is on. You see Frank impersonate so many different people in the movie. Leo plays perfectly. I liked him a lot in this and it's his best performance since Titanic. Tom Hanks is awesome. What else would you expect from him. The only problem is that they don't develop his character as much as I'd like. Overall it's a great movie. I own it and I love it. It shows an interesting story and I'd recommend it to anybody.
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